Disease entity impacts muscle wasting in the ICU with COVID-19 patients losing muscle nearly twice as fast.

In contrast, variables such as initial total muscle area, psoas muscle area, PMI, SMI, VAT, SAT, patient age, gender, arterial hypertension, other cardiovascular conditions, pulmonary or oncological conditions, and the presence of sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity and maximum SOFA scores did not reach statistical significance.

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